“Cannon, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.”

“Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.”

“Clarionet, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet -- two clarionets.”

“Words should be employed as the means, not as the end: language is the instrument, conviction is the work.”

“Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.”

“Tone is light in another shape. In music, instruments perform the functions of the colours employed in painting.”

“No man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation.”

“The arts have always transcended national boundaries as the haiku demonstrates.”

“Cannon his name,
Cannon his voice, he came.”

“With liberalisation and globalisation, it seems to me, India's national boundaries have ceased to exist.”